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<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>The Free Software Foundation and DefectiveByDesign have been working with
attorney <a href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com">Ray Beckerman</a> to help
fight for victims of the RIAA's baseless intimidation campaign. The RIAA
<a href="http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/sony_tenenbaum_090421PltffsBriefRespondFSFBrief.pdf">recently took
notice</a>,
calling our position -- and by extension the position of many other anti-DRM
activists -- "virulent" and "baseless."</p>
<p>We've responded to these accusations in an article <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513/">published at
TorrentFreak</a>.
Fighting these lawsuits is an important part of defusing Digital Restrictions
Management -- the more of these suits that the RIAA wins, the more ammunition
they will claim to have in their repeated efforts to shoot holes in our digital
rights and control our technology.</p>
<p>Executives like Rolf Schmidt-Holtz of Sony Music Entertainment should get the
message and back off. Although they claimed in December that they would stop
filing lawsuits against individuals, the RIAA filed 62 more in the month of
April alone. Citizens are tired of watching their governments squander their
freedom to enrich this handful of corporations, and they are tired of being
intimidated. The FSF and DefectiveByDesign will continue our work to support
this opposition to the War on Sharing, on all fronts.</p>
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<li><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513/">Read the full article at TorrentFreak.</a></li>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field--name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field--type-taxonomy-term-reference field--label-above"><div class="field__label">Topic:&nbsp;</div><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10">drm</a></div><div class="field__item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/34">RIAA</a></div><div class="field__item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/51">music</a></div><div class="field__item odd"><a href="/topic/mpaa">mpaa</a></div><div class="field__item even"><a href="/topic/gpl">gpl</a></div><div class="field__item odd"><a href="/topic/gnu">gnu</a></div><div class="field__item even"><a href="/topic/fsf">fsf</a></div><div class="field__item odd"><a href="/topic/biden">biden</a></div><div class="field__item even"><a href="/topic/obama">obama</a></div></div></div>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:51:16 +0000John Sullivan1242 at http://www0.defectivebydesign.org